tomentous

1. 1.

   densely covered with short matted woolly hairs

   “a tomentose leaf”

   Synonymstomentose

   Similarhairy

   biology

Questions about tomentous

What does tomentous mean?

tomentous means "densely covered with short matted woolly hairs".

How many syllables are in tomentous?

tomentous has 3 syllables: to-men-tous. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for tomentous?

Close synonyms include tomentose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tomentous a common word?

tomentous is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.